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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...
...State Alexander Haig. "The growth of anti-American rhetoric here is an irreversible invitation to further action of this kind," commented the prestigious Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, which predicted that terrorist acts would continue. Indeed, one day after Kroesen's escape, two explosive devices were found on a rail spur leading to the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base near Frankfurt. Said a police officer: "They would have blown up a train if it had passed...
Bangkok has been far less successful in containing Communist insurgents in the deep south. In recent weeks, guerrillas there have blown up a railroad bridge, disrupted rail traffic to Malaysia and ambushed a police station. Unlike the northeast, where poor farmers were drawn to the Communists by promises of a better life, the south spawned guerrillas who concentrated their propaganda on government corruption. "The people in the south become Communists for revenge, not ideology," explains Uthai Hiruntoa, the Interior Ministry's director for rural development in the five southernmost provinces. "Fighting is intense today because the hatred is very...
...last of those assaults occurred on the morning of the sentencing. A bomb blast ripped up a section of rail line outside the coastal city of East London-one more sign that the ANC, which was outlawed in 1960, is trying harder than ever to induce a climate of terror among whites in the South African laager. From neighboring Zimbabwe, ANC Acting President Oliver Tambo, 63, served notice that such violence will increase. Said he: "South Africa is a highly developed industrialized state. A few determined guerrillas can do a lot of damage-and we have more than just...
There is not much inventiveness of language these days either, no Menckenish words like "pecksniffian," no Rabelais around to rail against "slubberdegullion druggies, ninny lobcocks, or scurvy sneaksbies." Our social conscience interferes as well-the feeling that life offers enough abuse without adding insults to injuries. In short, we are simply too reverent, too reverent about the wrong things. In the past no one was safe. Macaulay said of Socrates: "The more I read him, the less I wonder that they poisoned...